Cuneiform is a multilingual script. Even though introduced to Unicode long ago, scholars in Ancient Oriental Studies are well aware of the fact that a bit more may actually be needed to let it really make sense in the context of modern-day media. Now, a new font family is produced, aimed at rendering complex sign lists by taking into account the different stages of development as well as a small universe of language variants. In close exchange with people active in the field, a web-based multilingual input method is under development, improving and widening the visual display of Cuneiform signs in a digital environment while keeping up the typographic standards of Roman transliteration systems used in science today. The project requires a basic knowledge of Cuneiform writing, history, and the necessities of its present-day usage, as well as skills in typeface design, typography, and coding. It represents an individual answer to the question of what a typeface designer could actually do for science.
Cuneiform—New Life for a Dead Script: Rendez-vous of extinct languages
